Buying paperback editions of Hemingway is funny because inevitably the
back of the book has a statement that says something to the effect of
"Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences" (that's a direct
quotation) and then on page 18 you find a sentence like He knew about
that, about motor cycles—that was earliest—about motor cars, about
duck-shooting, about fishing, trout salmon and big-sea, about sex in
books, many books, too many books, about all court games, about dogs,
not much about horses, about hanging on to his money, about most of the
other things his world dealt in, and about his wife not leaving him.
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